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I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?
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Personal abuse is no substitute for policy. It signals panic.
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For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.
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Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them.
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I am not hard - I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded
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President Numeiri of Sudan is said to have remarked of Gadaffi that he was 'a man with a split personality - both of them evil'.
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The secret of happiness is to live within your income and pay your bills on time.
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Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.
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My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality.
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Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.
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There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
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You can't lead from the crowd.
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I want to get totally rid of class distinction. As someone put it one of the papers this morning: Marks and Spencer have triumphed over Karl Marx and Engels.
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Failure? The possibilities do not exist.
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The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen. The men in the Soviet Politburo do not have to worry about the ebb and flow of public opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns.
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We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two years he did the biggest U-turn on policy of all time and started to go the wrong way. In the end, that cost us the next election.
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The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.
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Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
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I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.
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